as they were, and skillful with weapons, they went about where they liked and did as they pleased, approaching the inevitable time when they would cr… - Louis L'Amour

I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant.

Courage and bravery are words too often used, too little considered. It is one thing to speak them, another thing to live them.

The trees are aware, and the bushes. The birds and small animals are aware, and they listen, hesitant, suspecting. Awareness of danger is an element of their being. It is like their breathing, like the blood in their veins, and one who lives much with the wilderness become so aware, too... Half of woodcraft is attention, and all of survival.